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Amazing to me how desperately they've been focusing on Walz (which hasn't penetrated voters beyond the right wing bubble, despite media attempts to float it). They've still got no real consistent material on Harris, the top of the ticket.

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And the attacks on Walz are so pitiful and, yes, weird. They keep claiming he lies about stuff no sane person would lie about. Claiming he lied about his military service? That was never going to work but now especially not after Arlington. Claiming he lied about how they had their children? Nobody cares. That's their private business. Every attack just highlights their own toxicity. It wins them not a single new vote.

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I've noticed they even tried to make a big deal out of his brother being an alleged Trump supporter, which is country-ass dumb, frankly, because who doesn't have a MAGAt or two in their family at this point?

My take: the GOP and the MSM know that Walz appeals to a lot of older, white constituents who'd otherwise vote third party/independent, or for Trump, or would stay home, so they're doing all they can to take that advantage away from the Democrats.

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The media has all the talking points in line for Trump so he doesn't have to actually do anything. The historical importance of returning to Detroit for Labor Day rallies doesn't matter to them so they don't cover it. They are much more interested in having that jackass from the Teamsters all over the place to remind us again he is not endorsing the ticket until they give him what he wants. And in the meantime they can just recycle stories about how black and Hispanic voters love Trump now. 

I still have PTSD from watching Carnival of Souls on Election Night 2016 so it's both terrifying and very funny to see it used in this context.

 

They just want people to see him as a liar so anything he says will be invalidated. That's why they were even trying to claim he lied about his dog. It's the type of cheap seats attack that was resonant in the years they, and the media and many consultants that want to burn this country to the ground, so dearly miss (1988-2004). They have never gotten over the reality that many voters tune these smears out. They still haven't gotten over Obama winning in 2012 when the narrative insisted their forever friend Romney would triumph.

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A remarkably clear-eyed (for Politico) and not Republican-skewed piece. I still don't think it will be as close as anyone thinks (or claims, to keep turnout up) in the end, but I do think it will be a fight from here to the end.

 

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